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Dropbox not uploading/ uploading v slow
I have dropbox installed on multiple devices and they all work fine, except it has suddenly stopped uploading on my windows laptop.
I moved a load of photos off my phone onto dropbox on my laptop l...
I have a 5MB upload hard wired internet. Yet when I upload large files using my desktop application, I'm only getting 10-66kb transfer speeds. Why so slow? My ISP has checked and found nothing wrong with my service. Is Dropbox "throttling back" my upload speed? There are no other devises being used that would reduce band width. Please help!
Here we are on the same forum months or years after the first "problem" comments.
Most of having already searched through the help files; all the comments; contacted customer service only to receive (at least in the first instance) computer-generated automatic replies.
But then we persist and get a real person on the end of an exchange re: technical help.
What does Dropbox tell us? What they do is complicated and that some users might experience slow uploading.
Yes, and, so, what?
From this discussion forum we may read of the same problems encoutered by people from all over the world. Most are technically "intelligent" enough to try to find solutions to these problems. But apparantly solutions cannot be found because the service - as is - seems to have major flaws. Either that or Dropbox has found the solutions and not told anyone about them.
Does your computer slow down dramatically when using dropbox i.e. slows down by 75%?
Dropbox doesn't have a solution for that.
Dropbox takes 45 minutes of processing time to establish a file list every time you restart your computer? "this is normal".
Dropbox uploads files massively slower than any other test I have tried? Dropbox answers to this question go from ridiculous to uncool.
So... now that I got roped into trying to "save time" by implementing a dropbox system accross several of my computers. Now I'll have to waste time finding and testing another solution before moving all the files accross.
All Dropbox does as a company is store and sychronize files for people and businesses. If they cannot do that to a certain degree of effectiveness, what justifies their existance as a business let alone a 10 billion estimated market cap?
Seriously, Dropbox. You do one thing. Read the comments on this forum. Are you proud of your work? Do you want your paying customers to be totally frustrated (and tell everyone else about this frustration)?If Starbucks served bad coffee with bad service how long do you think they'd still be in business?
Do you still want to be in business in 2016?
Fix Dropbox. Please. Before your customers all turn elsewere.
